Historical Examples. 1  Behind Monet and Debussy the umbrella persisted, with the steady beat of a drum. 2  Debussy's extraordinary music136 may be explained in the same way. 3  Strauss and Debussy are also very different in their methods of composition. 4  Strauss and Debussy are the legitimate fruits of thy evil tree of music!
Banned Books Week was founded in 1982 by prominent First Amendment and library activist Judith Krug. Krug said that the Association of American Publishers contacted her with ideas to bring banned books to the attention of the American public after a slew of books had been banned that year.
It is difficult to say for sure, in part because there were so many agencies which got involved. According to Leonidas Hill, author of The Nazi Attack on Un-German Literature, 1933-1945, by 1934, over forty agencies had lists ennumerating 4,100 publications to be banned. The following list is necessarily partial, but should represent the most influential literature blacklists from 1933 to 1935.